Hi, I totally agree with Pam, my personal experience with hand expresion has been invaluable though I had all the resourses for pumps. I grew up in India where hand expression was part & parcel of breastfeeding, pump use was very rare as opposed to here in the US. Regards Sonali Desai, IBCLC *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html